December Reading Log

Here is this month's reading list (to date)

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team:  A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni
• Half the Sky:  Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
• Good News of Great Joy by John Piper

November Reading Log

Here are this month's reading adventures...so far:

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand- The fascinating biography of Louis Zamperini, Olympic athlete and WW2 veteran
• Too Busy for Your Own Good by Connie Merritt- A time management book for professional women
• Modest:  Men and Women Clothed in the Gospel by Tim Challies and R.W. Glenn
• Accidental Pharisees:  Avoiding Pride, Exclusivity, and the Other Dangers of Overzealous Faith by Larry Osborne
• Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail by Rom Brafman
• Heaven Without Her by Kitty Foth-Regner
• The Evernote Bible:  The Guide to Everything Evernote by Brandon Collins
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

October Reading Log

• When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
• A Girl and Her Money by Sharon Durling
• Made for Happiness by Jean Vanier
• Smile:  The Astonishing Power of a Single Act by Ron Gutman
• Beyond the Hole in the Wall:  Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning by Sugata Mitra
• Things as They Are:  Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
• Embracing Obscurity  by Anonymous
• Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere  by Will Richardson
• A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans

September Reading Log

This month has been a little more hectic than most, so the reading log for this month is a short one.

• Dreaming in Chinese:  Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows
• With:  A Practical Approach to Informal Mentoring by Alvin L. Reid
• Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life by Kent R. Hughes
• God, Grace, and Girlfriends by Mary R. Snyder
• Living Gently in a Violent World:  The Prophetic Witness of Weakness by Jean Vanier and Stanley Hauerwas
• Speech is a River by Ruth Mead

August Book Log

• Coming of Age on Zoloft:  How Antidepressants Cheered us up, Let us down, and Changed Who We Are by Katherine Sharpe
• The Power of a Positive No:  How to say NO and Still Get to Yes by William Ury
• The Art of Friendship:  70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections by Roger and Sally Horchow
• What Matters Most by Leonard Sweet
• Choosing to See by Mary Beth Chapman
• Behind the Veils of Yemen by Audra Grace Shelby
• 7:  An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
• Traditions of the Ancients: Vintage Faith Practices for the 21st Century by Marcia Ford
• Perfecting Ourselves to Death:  The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism by Richard Winter
• I Exalt You, O God by Jerry Bridges
• The Workshop Book:  From Individual Creativity to Group Action by R. Brian Stanfield
• Inerrancy and Worldview:  Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible by Vern Poythress

July Reading Log

July 2012 Reading List
Note: Listing a book does not constitute endorsement of its content

• Generous Justice by Timothy Keller
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• An Unquenchable Thirst by Mary Johnson *  
• Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen * 
• The Lure of the Saints:  A Protestant Experience of Catholic Tradition by Jon M. Sweeny
• Linchpin:  Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Abolition of Man by C.S Lewis
• The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ
• Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That:  A Modern Guide to Manners by Henry Alford *
• Roots of the Reformation by Karl Adam
• I am in Here:  The Journey of a Child with Autism Who Cannot Speak but Finds her Voice by Elizabeth M. Bonker and Virginia G. Breen
• Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running by Dagney Scott Barrios

*Contains some objectionable content

June Reading List

June 2012 Reading List
Note:  Listing of a book does not constitute endorsement of its content

• Meditation (NavEssentials) by Jim Downing
• Jesus + Nothing= Everything by Tullian Tchividjian
• Still:  Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren Winner
• King's Cross:  The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus by Timothy Keller
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• A Good and Perfect Gift:  Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny by Amy Julia Becker
• The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by Timothy Keller